Ok here is the situation
I put together a PC for a mate, set it up round my house... everything was working fine nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
He's just taken it back to his and when he starts it up he can't get any kind of picture coming through his monitor, it just says no signal.
When i set it up i set it up with a resolution of 1680x1050 as that was my monitors native resolution, however he has one of these ghetto monitors http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/displays/81598/acer-al1751 which has a max resolution of 1280x1024...
So im thinking that its trying to display the image at too high a resolution for the monitor, problem is he can't change it as he can't get any picture on his screen due to it saying "no signal"
I've had similar issues before with an xbox 360 that was set to one resolution which my tv didn't support and it kept saying "no signal", eventually i had to take it to my mates and get him to put it to my tvs native res and then it worked fine...
unfortunately he is miles away and can't bring it back round to mine.
Is there any way i can sort out this problem ? i realise its probably really basic and nooby but he's not computer literate and im not really sure how to sort this out either.
Any help would really be appreciated !
I put together a PC for a mate, set it up round my house... everything was working fine nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
He's just taken it back to his and when he starts it up he can't get any kind of picture coming through his monitor, it just says no signal.
When i set it up i set it up with a resolution of 1680x1050 as that was my monitors native resolution, however he has one of these ghetto monitors http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/displays/81598/acer-al1751 which has a max resolution of 1280x1024...
So im thinking that its trying to display the image at too high a resolution for the monitor, problem is he can't change it as he can't get any picture on his screen due to it saying "no signal"
I've had similar issues before with an xbox 360 that was set to one resolution which my tv didn't support and it kept saying "no signal", eventually i had to take it to my mates and get him to put it to my tvs native res and then it worked fine...
unfortunately he is miles away and can't bring it back round to mine.
Is there any way i can sort out this problem ? i realise its probably really basic and nooby but he's not computer literate and im not really sure how to sort this out either.
Any help would really be appreciated !